Chapter 799 – 799. Yggdrasil (6)
“How did you get the ability to enter other people’s dreams?”
“…”
As soon as I heard Stella’s question, I immediately shook my head.
The place I am is in a dream.
The dream was a place that reflected the realistic part, but on the other hand, the realistic situation did not occur.
Once I heard Stella’s question, the conclusion I came to is…
‘Is it a dream in which something related to a dream comes out… ?
I naturally thought that Stella was having a ‘dream in which a person related to the dream appeared’.
There were other speculations besides that.
Stella is recognizing the current situation as a dream, and furthermore, recognizing that I have invaded the dream.
But as soon as I remembered that guess, I shook my head.
‘No… No matter how much I think about it, that makes no sense.’
Yes, lucid dreaming, recognizing that it was a dream, was quite possible.
But if it’s clear that Stella is having lucid dreams…
“How long will you be hiding? Seong Soo-ho?”
It becomes a story that Stella is aware that I have invaded the dream.
‘… Did you really know?’
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it.
In the past, Lena had been aware of my dream to some extent, but that was only after waking up.
Even Lena was helplessly beaten by me in her dreams.
Who in the world would think that someone could sneak into their dreams?
In other words, I’ve never been caught cheating until now.
Yeah, so far…
“How long will you be hiding? Ah! Did you run away from your dreams because you were afraid of me? ? Whoop whoop.”
“…”
Stella giggled with a smile full of provocation.
‘Should I change my dream forcibly?’
Changing the content of a dream consumes a lot of mana, but it wasn’t difficult.
If the opponent was someone like Midsummer or Lewis that I had to thoroughly destroy, I would have tried to escape the situation somehow.
But…
“Whoa… How did you find out?”
I showed up in front of Stella.
‘If I did something like that when I was already caught, it would only harm me.’
The opponent was not an opponent that had to be simply destroyed like Midsummer or Louise.
Destroy it, but it was an opponent I had to possess.
If I had already read the numbers to such an opponent and tried to force myself into it, it would be a fight that would not have been won even if I won.
As if winning in multigame without being caught using cheats and winning after being caught using cheats are two different things…
When I showed up, Stella suddenly smiled brightly.
“Ah…”
Stella instantly adjusted her expression and opened her mouth with a fishy smile.
“You really came into my dream.”
“Okay. First of all, as you said, it showed up. Now it’s your turn to answer my question. How did you find out?”
“Heh… Do you want to know?”
“…”
Stella did not have the ability to perceive a dream.
I already knew that through the temperament window.
However, there is one part that can be missed even in the temperament window.
Item.
‘Could it be that there is an item that enhances mental power or has immunity to mind control?’
However, I immediately shook my head and dismissed the guess.
‘If it had been there, I would have written it a long time ago.’
Stella kept being teased by me and couldn’t properly deal with it until she was cornered.
If there was such an item in the first place, I would have used it a long time ago.
As Stella continued to look at me as if I was worried, she smiled and turned around and said,
“Let’s change seats.”
“… Okay.”
I started walking down the corridors of the royal palace following Stella.
Soldiers and attendant elves that I encountered in between rushed at me, but every time they did, Stella stopped them with a loud voice.
“You dare to swing a sword at a guest who came to visit me?”
“Mo, I’m sorry I didn’t know!”
The elves couldn’t help but tremble at Stella’s words.
It seemed as if the elves’ lives were shortened by 1-2 years under Stella’s fierce gaze.
‘They say it’s in a dream, but it’s probably like that in real life too, right?’
Looking at Stella’s attitude, the reaction of the elves in Arboss Kingdom on the 5th floor probably wouldn’t be too different.
People who don’t know will feel sympathy for the elves.
However, that was only the standard for humans who had not properly experienced the elves.
Having experienced the elves by going in and out of Stella’s dreams a few times, I…
‘It’s a pain.’
Rather, he felt exhilarated by the trembling elves.
Not only the soldiers, but even the servants, when they found me, tried to kill me as if there were bugs in the palace.
If the purpose was only to destroy the intruders, they would have understood.
Because there doesn’t seem to be any record of a human set foot in this country in the history of the kingdom of Arvos.
But the way they looked at me wasn’t just an intruder.
“My God, the princess is a human…”
“No matter how often you visit the third floor…
“If you get sick from that…”
“…”
The level of hatred of the elves here was worse than Stella’s.
The reason was simple.
Stella often visited the 3rd floor for unavoidable business, while the elves living on the 5th floor never left the 5th floor in their entire lives.
Some elves even talked about how they had never seen a human in a photograph or painting, even though they had outlived Stella.
The elves who keep looking at me and treating me like a rat that came up the drain…
‘What… If I get angry in a dream, I’m the only one who loses.’
It was the moment when I walked side by side with Stella, ignoring the voices around me.
“Oh… As rumored, it resembles a goblin.”
“What the fuck, what!?”
It was so absurd that at the moment, profanity came out.
Basically, I liked goblins.
I hated it before, but after meeting Ludwig and Weatherlock, I was able to throw away my prejudice against goblins.
However, the moment I said it looked like a goblin, the cap on my head popped off without my knowledge.
The elf who told me that she looked like a goblin was a woman, not quite as gorgeous as Stella, but wearing a fancy dress of her own.
At first glance, it seemed that she was not just a woman serving as a servant.
She whispered to the elves next to her and kept mocking her.
“Oh my, that human… Do you understand our language?”
“…”
‘Let’s wait… I can’t even see the temperament window here, and this place is a dream anyway. There is no such thing as a personality in real life…’
I tried to follow Stella while holding back my anger.
But…
“… Huh?”
“…”
Stella stopped her feet and turned her body to stare at the female elf who was staring at her.
Stella said her words to the elf, who had seen her mocking me with an expressionless expression.
“Ermina.”
“Yes, Her Highness the Princess.”
When Stella called the female elf who had been looking at her, she immediately knelt down in front of Stella in her formal manner.
The elf named Ermina treated Stella as if she were worshiping her god, with her facial expressions, eyes, voice, and demeanor.
And Stella looked down at Ermina with her godlike arrogance.
As if this is normal…
‘Hey… Her character deserves arrogance. She’s been treated like this for 300 years.’
It was a moment of admiration for Stella.
“Good job.”
“Go, Your Highness the Princess… ?”
At Stella’s one word, her Ermina’s graceful face rose and she looked at Stella with her eyes trembling with fear.
Stella continued her speech, slightly frowning.
“No way… You’re not asking me to explain, are you?”
“Ah, ah, no!! Sin, sorry! We will select the new chief attendant right away!”
“Okay.”
“Oooooh…”
Stella turned around and started walking on her way again, as if not paying attention to her Ermina’s weeping.
She then said to me where she stood blankly.
“What are you doing? Aren’t you coming soon?”
“Oh yeah.”
I hurriedly started following Stella.
Thanks to her Stella’s outburst, she was able to avoid hearing her gossip on the way with her.
‘No… It’s funny how they wentssip in the first place.’
If I were to judge the atmosphere of the Arbos palace, I couldn’t understand why he did it openly in the first place.
‘Hmm… It’s just a dream, right?’
Assuming so, I asked Stella an implicit question.
“Where are you going?”
“My bedroom.”
“Her…”
It was embarrassing because it was such a direct answer.
No, I don’t think I’ve ever been sober after entering this dream in the first place…
That’s how we got to Stella’s bedroom.
In front of the door, two knights in splendid silver armor stood side by side on either side of the door.
The knights in silver armor prepared themselves for battle as if they were shocked to see me and Stella together, but immediately changed to a straight posture at Stella’s unholy command.
Stella gave orders to the two knights in an arrogant voice.
“I don’t want to meet anyone today, so make sure no one messes with my ears.”
“Ah, I see!”
How to say… I wondered if it was Stella who was humiliated by me.
Even at the time of secretly observing through dreaming before, Stella did not open her mouth.
All communication was resolved with hand gestures, foot gestures, and glances.
Thanks to this, I could see how strong Arbos’s kingship was.
‘I ate the virgin of such a woman…’
I laughed inwardly and went into her bedroom with Stella.
The interior of the bedroom was as splendid as the royal floor.
However, limitations existed.
The furniture and decorations were much more splendid than those of the royal floor, but the base room felt slightly shabby.
‘That’s awful… It’s a strange curse.’
I looked around Stella’s disparate bedroom and followed Stella to the center of the bedroom.
Stella sat down at the dining table in the middle of the bedroom, and I finished looking around and sat across from her.
Now it was time to start talking in earnest.
“How did you find out?”
“Please answer my question first. The ability to enter dreams… How did you get that?”
I shook my head and answered.
“I can’t tell you.”
“… It’s not an ability obtained from Yggdrasil. Then your other abilities…”
I scratched my head, interrupted Stella, and asked a question.
“First, answer my question. How did you know I came in?”
“… If I answer the question, will you answer me too?”
“I’ll answer you as soon as possible.”
“Joy… How can you trust a promise?”
Because of the karma I’ve accumulated over the years, Stella never believed in my promises.
But what if you don’t believe it?
I answered shamelessly with an arrogant expression on my face.
“I’m starting to get annoyed.”
“…”
The expression I made was similar to the expression Stella gave to her other elves earlier.
My words and expression were warning Stella.
A warning not to forget the position between you and me…
Stella glared at me with a frown and she opened her mouth with a sigh.
“Great. Instead, promise me one thing before that.”
Stella tightened her eyes and she said firmly to me.
“Since the… Never sneak into my dreams again.”
“… Good.”
It was sincere.
As for Stella, she was more of an enemy, but on the one hand, she was the woman I wanted to own.
If she kept coming in and out of such a woman’s dreams and extracting information, no matter how much she depended on her, she wouldn’t be able to gain her trust.
‘Besides, they’ve already been caught, so they’ll be caught next time.’
I thought so and gave Stella her confirmation.
“I will never come back.”
“… Did you hear me right?”
“?”
Are you hysterical at me? I told him not to come in…
When I made a silly face, Stella opened her mouth to say that she was even more ridiculous.
“I told you not to sneak in. Who wants to never come in again?”
“…”
I couldn’t quite figure out what Stella was thinking.
‘Well, what…’
I wonder if he likes me, but looking at his words and attitude, I don’t think so…
‘… Could it be because of the side effects of dependency?’
I wondered if my mind was broken because I hated me but had a crush on me because of my subordination.
However, there was no such side effect on her temperament window.
I looked at Stella’s determined expression and answered seriously.
“I’ll promise. When I enter your dreams, I will take your permission unconditionally.”
“…”
Stella then nodded her head with a relieved expression.
“Great. Only that… All I had to do was keep it.”
“…”
Well, I wouldn’t be reluctant to reveal my true feelings to anyone.
No, it would be one of the most hated and fearful things in the world, apart from asking if you would like it in the first place.
‘I’ll have to be careful when going to sleep from now on.’
I thought so and stared at Stella’s face.
Stella looked at me and started talking in earnest.
“When you left me alone not too long ago, I was able to quietly clear my mind.”
“I recalled one by one the strange things that happened after I met you in the past.”
“So I came to the conclusion that you must have this or that ability. One of them was the ability to enter dreams.”
As soon as I heard Stella’s words, I frowned.
“What… ? For a moment!? Didn’t you notice that I entered the dream by using an ability or an item?”
“Heh…”
Stella snorted, then smiled and hummed.
“I just thought everything that happened while I was with you was strange, and I guessed based on that, and I came to the conclusion that I might have that ability.”
